Chapters 1-2
This is the character who kidnapped Buck to pay off a gambling debt.
Who is Manuel?
Buck kept warm at night from doing this.
What is digging a hole in the snow to sleep in?
This character thought things were more important than people.
Who is Mercedes?
This character had a different fate in Chapter 7 than at the end of the film version.
Who is John Thornton?
This is the protagonist (main character). He is a powerful dog, half St. Bernard and half sheepdog, who is stolen from a California estate and sold as a sled dog in the Arctic. He gradually evolves from a pampered pet into a fierce, masterful animal, able to hold his own in the cruel, kill-or-be-killed world of the North. Though he loves his final master, John Thornton, he feels the wild calling him away from civilization and longs to reconnect with the primitive roots of his species.
Who is Buck?
The man in the red sweater introduced this law to Buck.
What is the primitive law?
These are traits that helped Buck survive when becoming the dominant primordial beast.
What are determined, intuitive, responsible, fierce, confident?
Charles, Hal, and Mercedes represent these characteristics in the novel.
What are greed, selfishness, cruelty, and stubbornness?
This animal was killed by Buck in Chapter 7.
This is Buck’s enemy and the original leader of Francois’s dog team. This dog is a fierce animal—a “devil-dog,” who is used to fighting with other dogs and winning. He meets his match in Buck, who is as strong as this character and possesses more cunning. Buck kills him shortly following a rabbit chase.
Who is Spitz?
Buck's home in Santa Clara, CA
What is Judge Miller's estate?
Buck tried to do this after Spitz died.
What is trying to take the lead position, even though Francois wanted Sol-leks to take it?
This famous actor who played John Thornton in the movie version also played the roles of Han Solo and Indiana Jones.
Who is Harrison Ford?
Buck answers this in his dream.
What is he answers the call of the wild by following the Neanderthal.
This character is a dog on Buck’s team that becomes ill on one of the team’s journeys but refuses to leave the harness, preferring to die pulling the sled? Eventually he becomes too weak, and Francois must shoot him, to end his suffering.
Who is Dave?
Buck and Curly boarded this on their way from Seattle to Alaska.
What is the Narwhal?
Who is the hairy man in Buck's dream?
Who is a cave man (Neanderthal)? Buck dreams of him because he is a distant ancestor of his masters.
What is their sled crashed through the ice and they died?
John Thornton spend the $1,600 doing this.
What is he went searching for a lost mine?
This character is a friend of Buck’s who he met on the journey to the North. This dog’s death, when she naively tries to be friendly to a husky, acts as a warning to Buck of the harshness and cruelty of his new home.
Who is Curly?
Buck learned these laws in Chapter 2.
What are the laws of club and fang?
This dog ran until he finally was put down.
Buck followed this character everywhere.
The "call of the wild" is what kind of a literary device?
What is a METAPHOR? The "call of the wild" is the instinct that calls Buck to leave civilized life and join his distant relatives (wolves) in the forest.
This is the husky added to the team at Dyea who is attacked during the wild dog fight, having her throat torn. She goes mad and Francois has to put her down.
Who is Dolly?